Wayne County Prosecutor v. Recorder's Court Judge

The facts are well stated in the dissenting opinion and need not be repeated here. The issue in this case is whether the magistrate’s decision to suppress the sole incriminating evidence in this case was clearly erroneous. In this regard, we believe the point on which this case turns is the testimony of the arresting officer, who stated that he had encountered coin envelopes of the type seized here 800 or 900 times in the same general area during his experience as a police officer and that such envelopes usually contained heroin. Based on this testimony, which is additionally supported by a…